19-year-old man shot in the left leg in Jersey City: cops

A 19-year-old Jersey City man was shot in the left leg early this morning on Orient Avenue, just six hours after a woman was robbed by two men on the same road a few blocks away, according to a police report.

At around 2:46 a.m., police officers arrived at the scene where the shooting was reported to have happened but only found one person in the vicinity, who did not have any weapons on him when searched, the report stated.

The man told police he heard a gunshot in the area but that he hadn't seen anything, officers said.

About 10 minutes later, the officers were dispatched to Grant Avenue on the report of a man who said he had been shot at Orient Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, officers said.

The 19-year-old man told officers he was standing on Orient Avenue with a female friend he knew from school when a man he didn't know came up to him and said, "When I come up the block, you better be gone," the report stated.

When the 19-year-old ignored his threat, the man went away but later came back, walking behind a vehicle that was parked at the curb, officers said. He then opened fire on the 19-year-old, the report stated.

The 19-year-old ran fled west on Orient Avenue and then to his cousin's house on Grant Avenue, where he was discovered by police, officers said. He was taken to the Jersey City Medical Center for a gunshot wound to his left leg, the report stated.

He was treated and discharged this morning, JCMC spokesman Mark Rabson said.

No arrests have been made so far in connection to the shooting, Jersey City police spokesman Bob McHugh said earlier this afternoon.

The shooter is described in the report as a man around 5-8 in height, in his mid-20s, with dreadlocks and wearing a white shirt.